Hasp for luggage locks



May 9, 1939. J. B. FREYSINGER I QHASPFOR LUGGAGE LOCKS Filed 001:. 19, 1936' game/whoa dbH/VB FREYJWG'ER Patented May 9, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HASP FOR LUGGAGE LOCKS cut Application October 19, 1936, Serial No. 106,316

3 Claims.

This invention relates to hasps and more particularly to a hasp adapted for luggage such as suitcases and trunks.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a simply and easily constructed hasp which may be cheaply manufactured, provided with a minimum number of parts, and easily assembled.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a hasp having a spring member serving to secure the parts together and also to resilently urge the pivoted tongue into an open or nonlatching position.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out more in detail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a rear view of my hasp assembly which is partly broken away to show the operative position of the parts;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through my hasp taken substantially along the line 22 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the spring member.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates generally a hasp plate, B the hasp or tongue, and C the spring for holding the parts together and urging the hasp to unlatched position. The hasp plate A comprises a member preferably formed of sheet metal and having openings l adapted to receive screws or rivets for securing the same to a piece of luggage or the like. The plate has a marginal flange ll disposed generally at right angles to the plane of the plate and a central depressed portion l2 forming a casing or housing for the spring. The bottom wall formed by the lower portion of the flange is provided with an elongated narrow slot IS.

The tongue or hasp B comprises a flat strip or piece of metal which may be blanked out and is provided at its lower end with a suitable securing lug l4 adapted to be engaged with a look, not shown. In the present instance, this securing lug is illustrated as a U-shaped member riveted in position, but any type of securing lug may be employed. The upper end of tongue B has a pair of laterally extending aligned shoulders l5 engageable with the bottom flanged portion of the casing. A flat reduced portion or nose 5 at the upper end of the tongue and intermediate of the shoulders extends through slot l3 and has a transversely extending slot I! therethrough which lies within the housing portion of plate A when the parts are assembled. Slot I3 is slightly wider than the thickness of the nose portion which it receives so that the tongue may pivotally move within the slot to the respective latched and unlatched positions b and b and will be limited in the extent of its pivotal movement by the edges of said slot (Fig. 2).

The U-shaped spring C is compressed within the housing beneath nose It, and a hooked portion C on the outer end of said spring is secured through slot I! to prevent withdrawal of tongue C from the casing A. As illustrated in Fig. 2, the parts may be easily assembled. Nose i6 is first entered through slot I3 until shoulders l5 engage the hasp plate, after which spring C is hooked through slot I! in the position shown in dotted lines and swung towards plate A into operative position. This spring pivotally locks the tongue to the casing with shoulders I5 thereagainst and resiliently urges the tongue to an open or unlatched position.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

1. A hasp for looks comprising a hasp plate having a housing provided with a slot through a wall thereof, a hasp tongue having a reduced portion at one end pivotally received within and extending through said slot, said reduced portion having an opening therethrough, a spring within said housing and having a portion extending through the opening in said reduced portion for holding said plate and tongue in assembled relation and for normally urging said tongue to a predetermined position.

2. A hasp having a hasp plate provided with a wall disposed at an angle to the plane of the plate and said wall having a slot, a hasp tongue having shoulders adapted to engage said wall, and a portion extending through said slot and provided with an opening, and a spring within said plate having a hooked portion at one end extending through said opening, said spring maintaining said plate and hasp in assembled relation and normally urging said hasp to a predetermined position.

3. A hasp for locks comprising a hasp plate having a peripheral flange provided with a slot therethrough, a hasp tongue having a reduced portion at one end extending through and pivotally received within said slot, and a spring resiliently engaged between said reduced portion and the plate, said spring being secured to the tongue and maintaining it within said slot.

JOHN B. FREYSINGER. 

